Moreover, people who've dedicated their lives to fighting drugs worry about Americans' short memory.
Hitherto, American military aid to Colombia has been ostensibly directed at fighting drugs rather than guerrillas.
He has access to the most advanced imaging machines, the best surgeons and numerous new tumor-fighting drugs.
Y. company called Exegenics, which was started in 1991 to develop disease-fighting drugs.
The trip comes a year after President Barack Obama promised to be a "full partner" with Mexico in fighting drugs.
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But Mr Fox also hopes for more American co-ordination on fighting drugs, and on cleaning up environmental damage along the border.
To identify those rogue genes--and use them to develop lucrative fat-fighting drugs.
High on the agenda will be Mexico's mixed record in fighting drugs.
The past 35 years have seen only one new class of bacteria-fighting drugs come to market, and a solo entrant at that--Pfizer's Zyvox.
The company, which makes Taxol and other cancer-fighting drugs, is also sponsoring an annual cross-country bike relay for cancer survivors, researchers and health professionals.
Wonders such as mass-produced insulin, cancer-fighting drugs, pest-killing crops and glowing fish--they're simply the result of moving a single gene from one organism to another.
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Despite the fact that obesity is one of the biggest preventable causes of death, investors may find that fat-fighting drugs are a far riskier business than they seem.
The recovery of Pfizer, the world's biggest pharmaceutical company, rests largely on how well Nicholson, 53, can get cancer-fighting drugs out of its research labs and into doctors' offices.
Several readers had the same complaint with my story Monday on how biotechnology executives are heartened by the beginnings of a sense of clarity from the Food and Drug Administration: an omission in my list of companies developing bacteria-fighting drugs.
As a government, we are fighting illegal drugs by cutting off supplies and reducing demand through anti-drug education programs.
But, more than a decade later, it turns out that quite a few countries severely affected by malaria still maintain tariffs on the importation of mosquito nets and other malaria-fighting products and drugs.
He said simply fighting the war on drugs harder would not work and other options had to be considered.
Dundee University researchers believe they have found a way to predict the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs in fighting ovarian cancer.
Guerrero state has been a battleground for rival drugs cartels fighting for control of lucrative smuggling routs along Mexico's Pacific coast.
Fighting the war on drugs has skyrocketed the number of Americans arrested.
That was the status quo under previous governments, and the reason that Felipe Calderon is so passionate about fighting the war on drugs.
The Russian government has abandoned an agreement with the US on fighting crime and the drugs trade, in an apparent sign of worsening relations.
Although several new drugs for fighting bacteria are in development, experts caution that we are decades behind in comparison with the historical rate at which we have discovered and developed new antibiotics.
For one thing, we have to also look at how we spend the revenues we do take in, and decide whether spending tens of billions of dollars a year fighting the War on Drugs, or hundreds of billions of dollars a year funding the Defense Department, are really ways we want to spend money.
The concept of fighting heart disease with asthma drugs is still in its infancy.
And together we go ahead to organize elections, to professionalize our police, to have -- get reforms, fighting against corruption, against drugs, building a state of law.
Within a year Langer had invented a new plastic that used proteins to burrow holes big enough to release multiple drugs and cancer-fighting chemicals into the body.
But its cancer-fighting franchise is struggling, as new drugs to complement Camptosar, the treatment of choice for colorectal cancer, have failed to materialize as planned.
The ruling is sure to strike fear in the hearts of big pharma executives worldwide who are fighting to prolong the patents on their drugs--and their revenue--in the face of increasing generic competition.
Germ-fighting fixes include inclining patients' beds, disinfecting their mouths and using drugs to prevent ulcers that could cause stomach bacteria to infiltrate the lungs.
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